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(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, forthcoming)

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Further Info:

Winner, 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize in History

Winner, 2007 Leverhulme Research Leadership Award: “China's War with Japan”

Media appearances include History Channel and BBC4 documentaries (The Samurai and the Swastika, Philosophy of the East, etc) for television; radio including Today, Thinking Allowed, Start the Week (BBC Radio 4), Brief Lives (BBC Radio 5 Live): presenter for Night Waves and The Sunday Feature (BBC Radio 3)

Reviews and essays in London Review of Books, Financial Times, History Today, New Internationalist, Times Higher Education Supplement